The Orbeon Forms Blog

Developers have known for a long time that unit testing can make a difference in software. In particular, solid unit tests help increase its robustness and make it easier to refactor source code. Extreme Programming...

A 3-Tier Architecture (3TA) is traditionally used when building web applications. It makes a logical separation between the presentation layer, the business logic layer, and the database layer. For instance, on the Java platform, the...

The Mozilla project recently announced the first beta version of their XForms support for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. As the W3C puts it, XForms is the next generation of web forms. It aims at...

This Monday Orbeon gave a short talk on XML pipelines at ObjectWebCon05 in Lyon, France. The talk was done in the context of ObjectWeb's ESBi initiative. The goal of this initiative is, in ObjectWeb's own...

The Java Business Integration (JBI) specification currently being worked on within the Java Community Process (JCP) extends the Java Platform with the concept of services (as in SOA). It defines in particular what services are...

"Composite applications" has become quite a buzzword. But what are those composite applications, exactly? The short answer is: applications built by composing existing applications and services. Now let me give you the long answer. We...

The Open Integration Suite aims at creating an open source, standard-based, business integration suite. The Orbeon Presentation Server, a platform purposely built to create SOA-friendly composite applications, is available for download. Other components of the...